Ronald Boone '20

Lucky Bag

RONALD AUBRY BOONE

ONE look at that jaw and you read his character. Boone is a plugger and a fighter,—incidentally he sports the Academy welterweight championship, so steer clear of any argument.

"Danny" came to us from Idaho with one intention, to graduate, and he did it. It was tough sledding all along but that aforementioned jaw did the trick—and now that he has the "scrap of paper" he can truly look on it as a "work of labor" and not love's labor lost.

"Dan'l's" no snake, nor has he a "one and only" back among the Mormons. He shows a preference for "thirty-sixes," and we thought he had fallen First Class Sep leave, but he saw her in a bathing suit and it was all off then. He and Frankus claim the honor of being the two misogynists of 364.

He's something of a poet for all that—Kipling and Service occupy a place of Honor on his shelf; he's strong for the "virile" stuff.

"Danny" doesn't intend to be one of those "fools" who "go down to the sea in ships"—he says the gyrenes are the boys that wear the pants; if he gets his req granted, the Navy loses a real man.

RONALD AUBRY BOONE

ONE look at that jaw and you read his character. Boone is a plugger and a fighter,—incidentally he sports the Academy welterweight championship, so steer clear of any argument.

"Danny" came to us from Idaho with one intention, to graduate, and he did it. It was tough sledding all along but that aforementioned jaw did the trick—and now that he has the "scrap of paper" he can truly look on it as a "work of labor" and not love's labor lost.

"Dan'l's" no snake, nor has he a "one and only" back among the Mormons. He shows a preference for "thirty-sixes," and we thought he had fallen First Class Sep leave, but he saw her in a bathing suit and it was all off then. He and Frankus claim the honor of being the two misogynists of 364.

He's something of a poet for all that—Kipling and Service occupy a place of Honor on his shelf; he's strong for the "virile" stuff.

"Danny" doesn't intend to be one of those "fools" who "go down to the sea in ships"—he says the gyrenes are the boys that wear the pants; if he gets his req granted, the Navy loses a real man.

Obituary

Death in action has overtaken Col. Ronald A. Boone, 48—the hero of the "Shanghai incident" of 1937, in which he administered a much-needed and vigorous slap in the face to a Japanese general.

The marine corps colonel, probably the most colorful and world-known of Idaho soldiers, has had a spectacular career since his graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. Word of the former Twin Falls man's death was received here Tuesday by Hugh O. Boone, a brother. Julian Boone, New York City, did not give the date of death or any particulars.

Colonel Boon was serving with the intelligence department [four lines totally obscured in the scan]… last year from the colonel in January of this year. At that time he was in the Aleutian islands.

He told relatives that "things have come pretty close a couple of times, but I have never been hit."

Colonel Boone had many years' foreign duty to his credit, including extensive service in China. His role in the "Shanghai incident" of 1937 was later chronicled in Time magazine and won worldwide attetnion. The colonel, then a marine corps captain, startled Japan and one Jap general in particular by refusing to be cowed by already overbearing Jap force. He brought the general up short by a slapping his face.

After graduating Twin Falls high school in 1915, he attended the naval academy in Annapolis, and took his sea duty during World War I.

His contributions in World War II have been brilliant. At this time last year, he was attached to Admiral Halsey's fleet.

Surviving are his wife, who lives in Washington, D.C.; his father and two brothers, and two sisters.

Career

The Post-Register (Idaho Falls) in 1937 reported that Ronald had been in Shanghai since 1935 and that he was in Peking from 1926 to 1931. From 1932 to 1935 he was in Washington, D.C. In 1937, a Captain, he was the regimenatal intelligence officer for the 4th Marines.

In 1943 he was identified as a Colonel and "had spent eight years in Peking and Shanghai on language, intelligence, diplomatic, and public-relations missions." He was involved in providing MAGIC diplomatic summaries to President Roosevelt.

Memorial Hall Error

Ronald is not listed with his classmates. This omission was discovered by reviewing the September 1946 issue of SHIPMATE.

Class of 1920

Ronald is one of 27 members of the Class of 1920 on Virtual Memorial Hall.